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April 2008 - Posts

Monday, April 28, 2008 7:37 AM

OneNote infiltrates the US Treasury?

Hey, check out the back of the new five dollar bill here in the USA (and yes, I'm probably breaking 15 major laws by scanning a bill): Hmm. That color sure does look like OneNote purple. Maybe we can sue the government and claim we own purple. I mean,
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Friday, April 25, 2008 8:56 AM

A OneNote Tips blog has started

This is great news: Jeff Cardon, the fellow who brought us the Print Manager powertoy, the CRM addin for OneNote and more useful powertoys than I can list here has started a OneNote tips blog over at here: http://blogs.msdn.com/onenotetips [update: new
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:59 AM

OneNote as a karaoke machine: no powertoy needed!

I was playing around with Jeff's media tuner addin the other day and trying to align some notes I had taken a little better with the audio I had recorded. Then it hit me - OneNote is a "poor man's karaoke machine." You can take a song, drop it on a OneNote
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Monday, April 21, 2008 7:50 PM

Welcome Carlos Rivera to the OM team!

I’m very pleased to announce Carlos Rivera has joined us on the Shared Source OM team for our project at www.codeplex.com/onom . He will be working on creating a Sudoku addin for OneNote using the OM. This should be a lot of fun. Here’s what he has to
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Monday, April 21, 2008 7:07 AM

Tracking too many interrupts with my tablet PC

I have been very happy with my tablet once I scanned my fingerprint to "calm down" the fingerprint reader software. I happened to notice the fan on the tablet was still running more often than what I expected after making that change. I figured
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Monday, April 14, 2008 7:18 AM

Living in the cache - the rest of the story

My big plan to "live in the cache" and automatically consolidate my offline changes when I got my tablet back backfired. If you remember, I have my working notebook stored on my Gateway tablet, and share the folder it is in over the domain here at work.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:38 AM

Two new case studies on OneNote, and how they will affect testing

Last week Alceste mentioned, in a comment about using personas for testing, that the sample set we have on www.microsoft.com/evidence may be self selected and skewed toward the educational market. That's a good point. If we had thousands of case studies,
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:46 AM

Welcome Ali Babaoğlan to the Shared Source OM team

I just got finished sending this email to the OM team on www.codeplex.com/onom . This is incredibly exciting, and I wanted to let everyone know what we're working on next. I’m very happy to announce Ali Rıza Babaoğlan has joined our OM team! He will work
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Monday, April 07, 2008 7:03 AM

Triaging our "tools" bug list

Last week we took a look at bugs we have opened in the "Tools" branch of our bug database. For OneNote, "tools" is a catchall for a wide range of differing areas: automation bugs, performance work needed, bugs with out test tools (which is probably the
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:10 AM

Testing themed controls for OneNote addins

About a week ago, Shu updated his OneNote Favorites addin to support themed controls. In short, themed controls display in a more "modern" fashion than unthemed controls, but work the same. If you think back to Windows 95, you can see unthemed
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